Licensing Guidelines Update - Please Read

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 11:25 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 07/08/2010 05:35 PM, Paul wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >> [pfj] xmms: 1:xmms-libs-1.2.11-11.20071117cvs.fc14.x86_64
> > 
> > Unless something very odd is going on here, xmms-libs does have the
> > COPYING file included (just checked the spec file).
> > 
> > Could it be that there is a problem with the build sys on x86_64 which
> > is causing it to miss?
> 
> No, it is simply that it isn't sanely scriptable to check to see if that
> package actually has license text, so the script generated a list of
> "probable" subpackage candidates to be manually checked.
> 
I can add a few heuristics scanning the filelists of any pkg which is a
potential positive - looking for COPYING* or LICENSE* it won't be
perfect but I bet it'll reduce the false positives - unfortunately it
will create some false negatives too.

-sv